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Shipping and Free Passenger Records

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Learn about the wonderful resources we hold to help locate the arrival of an ancestor in NSW. 

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NRS 1291: Unassisted passengers, 1826-1859
NRS 13278: Unassisted passengers, 1854-1922
NRS 4332: List of passengers on the Dunbar
NRS 5317: Persons on bounty ships ('Board's Immigrant Lists'), 1848-1891

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Assisted Immigrants (digital) Shipping Lists
Immigration / Shipping Guide
Crew Records Guide
Shipwrecks Guide

Behind the Scenes

In this episode of Archives Behind the Scenes Emily shows us some assisted passenger lists, in particular the Board's Passenger Lists of arrivals to Sydney that date from 1848 to 1896.

Archives Behind the Scenes - Assisted Passenger Lists

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This Guide is designed to provide quick reference to NSW immigration and shipping records and will assist researchers tracing free persons arriving in and departing from NSW as well as the movement of vessels.

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  • Vessels Arrived in Sydney

    This index relates to vessels arriving in Sydney only. It records the name and type of vessel, and date of arrival. If you know the name of the ship, this index will be useful to check or confirm the date of arrival. There are 120,133 entries in this Index.

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  • Unassisted Immigrants Index

    Unassisted (or free) passengers who came to Australia at their own expense, including ships' crew and military (check under 'Regiments'). This index was compiled by Ms Aileen Trinder and Ms Pat Fearnley (formerly Stemp) of Pastkeys. 

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  • Miscellaneous Immigrants Index

    Search for passengers who paid their own fare and also assisted immigrants. Information includes: name, ship, date of arrival, age and events (e.g. shipwreck).

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  • Bounty Immigrants Index

    A pilot project available to search at familysearch.com. This project offers a digitised version of the Index to Bounty Immigrants, 1828-42 which was compiled by the Church of Latter Day Saints.

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  • Assisted Immigrants Index

    Assisted immigrants arriving in Sydney and Newcastle 1844-59, Moreton Bay, 1848-59 and Port Phillip 1839-51. 'Assisted immigrant' refers to those people whose passage was subsidised or paid for through one of the assisted immigration schemes to NSW from the United Kingdom and other countries. 

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